Description

The Handbook of Global Media and Communication Policy offers insights into the boundaries of this field of study, assesses why it is important, who is affected, and with what political, economic, social and cultural consequences.

Provides the most up to date and comprehensive collection of essays from top scholars in the field

Includes contributions from western and eastern Europe, North and Central America, Africa and Asia

Offers new conceptual frameworks and new methodologies for mapping the contours of emergent global media and communication policy

Draws on theory and empirical research to offer multiple perspectives on the local, national, regional and global forums in which policy debate occurs

About the Author

Robin Mansell is Professor and Dixons Chair in New Media and the Internet, former Head of the Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science and Past President of the International Association for Media and Communications Research. She is co-author of Mobilizing the Information Society: Strategies for Growth and Opportunity (2000) and editor of books including The Oxford Handbook of Information and Communication Technologies (2007) and Trust and Crime in Information Societies (2005) and some 100 journal articles and reports in the media and communication policy field.

Marc Raboy is Professor and Beaverbrook Chair in Ethics, Media and Communications in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University. A former journalist in a wide variety of media, he is the author or editor of seventeen books and more than one hundred journal articles or book chapters, as well as reports for such organizations as the World Bank, UNESCO, the Japan Broadcasting Corporation, the European Broadcasting Union, the Policy Research Secretariat of the Government of Canada, and the Quebec Ministry for Culture and Communication.